On Benefits Street Sir: Fraser Nelson asserts that people in charities do not want to talk about what life is like on poverty (‘Britain’s dirty secret’, 18 January). To those of us who have experienced poverty or supported others stuck in it, there is no secret. We didn’t need a sensationalist pseudo-documentary to know that
Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that he was in favour of increasing the minimum wage by an amount greater than that of inflation. The International Monetary Fund raised its expectation of growth for Britain in 2014 to 2.4 per cent, from a forecast of 1.9 per cent last October. Unemployment fell
One for the road Road safety campaigners were angered by the opening of the first pub at a motorway service station, on the M40 in Buckinghamshire. — Drink-driving campaigns pre-date the motor-car: it was in 1872 that the first law was enacted that made it an offence to drive carriages, horses, cattle and steam engines
The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking to the Centre for Social Justice this morning. Introduction It is a pleasure to be hosted today by the Centre for Social Justice – setting out a vision for Britain’s welfare state alongside the organisation where, in a sense, it all started. Within their critique, the CSJ set
listen to ‘Ed Miliband’s ‘One Nation Economy’ banking reform speech’ on Audioboo Today I want to tell you what the next election is about for Labour. It is about those families who work all the hours that God sends and don’t feel they get anything back. It is about the people who go to bed
‘He commutes so often that now he can’t read a book any other way’
‘It’s always about you, isn’t it?’
‘Ah Mr Bond, we’ve been expecting you’
‘Oh, nothing’s wrong — I just thought there would be a few more people up here.’
‘This machine measures my stress levels. If at any point this red light comes on the date is over.’
‘The post’s arrived.’
‘You can always tell the married ones.’
‘Here’s to us — we survived our first recession.’
‘The big challenge in production-line work is to avoid peaking too soon.’
‘I’ve switched bankers — this is George.’
‘Am I right in thinking that this is the first time you’ve done tagging, Gary?’